Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 19:38, OOzy Pal wrote: Dears, I am using UTF-8 Encoding. My site chars looks good and nice on Linux (Firefox) but it looks ugly and unreadable on Windows browsers (Firefox for win and IE6) Can anyone help? Why use UTF-8, iso-85xx, windows charsets etc.. in html documents ? You can bypass all that crap, including national special characters, by using plain ASCII. For every thinkable, special character there is an escape-sequence. For example, the Danish *ø* (can you read that ?) will be readable in every browser in every country by encoding it as : *oslash;*. A quotation mark is *quot;* and so on and so forth. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* I can not write my complete site in ASCII as quot etc. The site is not in english. Can any one help = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 18:24, OOzy Pal wrote: snip I can not write my complete site in ASCII as quot etc. The site is not in english. Can any one help /snip What language then ? - My guess is that one of the iso-8859-x will cover it. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding
Kaj, The language is Arabic. The reason I am using utf-8 is because google.com does that. I usualy try to look at other guru's code and learn from it. Thank you --- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 18:24, OOzy Pal wrote: snip I can not write my complete site in ASCII as quot etc. The site is not in english. Can any one help /snip What language then ? - My guess is that one of the iso-8859-x will cover it. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding
OOzy Pal wrote: Kaj, The language is Arabic. The reason I am using utf-8 is because google.com does that. I usualy try to look at other guru's code and learn from it. Check out some other Arabic written web sites. I just took a look at http://www.ahram.org.eg/ and the code uses meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html; charset=windows-1256' The web page and font look good both in Linux and Mac OS X. I don't have a Windows machine to test this though. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Browser Encoding
Dears, I am using UTF-8 Encoding. My site chars looks good and nice on Linux (Firefox) but it looks ugly and unreadable on Windows browsers (Firefox for win and IE6) Can anyone help? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding
On Monday 03 January 2005 19:38, OOzy Pal wrote: Dears, I am using UTF-8 Encoding. My site chars looks good and nice on Linux (Firefox) but it looks ugly and unreadable on Windows browsers (Firefox for win and IE6) Can anyone help? Why use UTF-8, iso-85xx, windows charsets etc.. in html documents ? You can bypass all that crap, including national special characters, by using plain ASCII. For every thinkable, special character there is an escape-sequence. For example, the Danish *ø* (can you read that ?) will be readable in every browser in every country by encoding it as : *oslash;*. A quotation mark is *quot;* and so on and so forth. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
